How Elon Musk reportedly staked Tesla’s future on robotaxis against the advice of his own senior management team

Tesla races to deliver once-unthinkable tech to major US city — here’s what we know

The future is en route to our doorstep, and it's being delivered by Tesla. The electric automaker has been pressing forward with its plans to create a network of driverless robotaxis, a concept generally reserved for science fiction until recently.  According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, sci-fi will become a reality in June, Not a Tesla App reported. While Waymo (owned by Google parent company Alphabet Inc.) has already rolled out autonomous driving …

How Elon Musk reportedly staked Tesla’s future on robotaxis against the advice of his own senior management team

The Information reported Tesla CEO Elon Musk didn't feel launching a compact EV was worthy of the technological disruptor and opted for the CyberCab, despite an internal report warning the latter's sales could be so low it might not ever make money. “Ultimately I think Elon is just uninterested in making a [Volkswagen] Golf-type car," a source told the publication. Elon Musk is known for being among the most demanding CEOs in the world, someone …

An Internal Tesla Analysis Found the Robotaxi Would Lose Money, and You'll Never Guess What Elon Musk Did in Response

Back in October of 2024, Tesla investors and fanboys alike flocked to Hollywood for the company's "We, Robot" event. The company's backers hoped Musk would finally unveil the long-awaited "$25,000 Tesla" — a lower-budget EV that was sure to rejuvenate sales as the costly Cybertruck flopped — but what they got was anything but. Instead, the event kicked off with a visibly stiff Elon Musk waving to the crowd and climbing into a garish gold sedan. …

In 2024, Elon Musk made an important decision: he preferred that Tesla's teams concentrate their teams on their own... The article Elon Musk ignored an internal analysis showing that Tesla could lose money with the Cybercab appeared first on Automobile Clean.

Tesla Robotaxis — Profit Centers or Loss Centers?

In the past year or so, we heard all about an internal debate at Tesla about whether to exclusively pursue robotaxis or put the company's focus into developing a cheaper and even more mass-market model than the Model 3 and Model Y. Or, well, we thought we heard all about ... [continued] The post Tesla Robotaxis - Profit Centers or Loss Centers? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Elon Musk fully relies on the self-driving cybercab at Tesla. However, executives have expressly warned that the car could never be profitable. And the figures at Tesla do not look good at the moment. Tesla has become known to the general public mainly through his e-car. Now, the English-language magazine The Information (Paywall) reports that Tesla-CEO deliberately chose an expensive and special car, which should become the next project of the …